Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Rudy, part 66: an avalanche kills the un…

who was the best marksman in valais, the chamois said?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, say · To what, where: best marksman, valais, chamois · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 855 «Andersen's Tales, Rudy, part 66: an avalanche kills the uncle, and Rudy becomes the family's hunter and guide» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 marksman	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 marksman	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 marksman	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 marksman	amod
5	marksman	marksman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 valais	case
7	valais	valai	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 marksman	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 chamois	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chamois	det
10	chamois	chamois	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marksman	conj
11	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 chamois	acl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 marksman	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the best marksman and the chamois		valais			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	participle		the chamois not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Saperli, the village priest said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saperli	Saperli	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Saperli	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 priest	det
4	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 priest	compound
5	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Saperli						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

rudy, the chamois all knew it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rudy	rudy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knew	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chamois	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chamois	det
4	chamois	chamois	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 rudy	conj
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 knew	advmod
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	rudy and the chamois	chamois				all property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

rudy, sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rudy	rudy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sure	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 rudy	punct
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

the old uncle, everyone agreed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 uncle	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 uncle	amod
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 agreed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 uncle	punct
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 agreed	nsubj
6	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	the old uncle						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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